Western “Values”
Western “Values” … | Homeless on the High Desert
Dog named Cricket got a raw deal from an owner who could not train it, so took the easy way out. And she wants to be in the White House?
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Donna asked me about this the other day and it doesn’t seem to be going away
First, let’s establish a couple of things: I am from Way Out West, from Eureka! California to Eureka! Montana; grew up in a logging, lumber and ranching town and my first job was on a cattle ranch, fifteen years old. Second: South Dakota is not way out west. It’s barely Montana; it’s the mid-west, the middle of nowhere
I’m not sure that I’d call it a “value” and I’m sure they probably do the same in the swamplands, but I’ve had to put a couple dogs down. An old friend, a Good Dog; an aggressive dog, and one that got into the chickens. It’s one of those things that happens, not something you brag about, write about in a book
I’ll tell you what’s not a “Western Value” ~ rushing a book to print for the sole purpose of it being a convention perk, jotting down whatever random memory comes to mind and giving it to a ghost-writer to fill out the bullshit details
What’s not a western value is not taking the time to properly train and care for working dogs and then just randomly shooting one because you didn’t like the way it turned out; and then because you’ve already got a gun in your hand and you’re on a rampage shoot the goat because don’t like it either. In front of kids
We used to discourage people like that from having guns, dogs, and children
I don’t know if it answers: what that bimbo’s selling ain’t Western Value
Ten Bears
She Shot Three Horses Too !
Thanks Bill
ten
i go further than that. we don’t shoot dogs here for any reason. but we have the luxury of being able to take the time to fix even hard problems. we also don’t put them in crates on top of the car. dogs are family. a sacred trust.
we already knew the Trumpies were sick. I at least knew that Romney was sick. And they will treat people with the same human caring that they treat dogs.
or in crates ever. but that is a conversation i can’t win.
note i am not finding fault with you. i am agreeing with you. just saying we go a little further here because we can.
I would actually like to see us (everyone) move away from the dog-killing part and pay attention to the dog-whistling. I’m not proud of everything I’ve done, I was in the Army fifty+ years ago, fergoodnesssakes, but that stuff was long ago, things were different and they haven’t happened since. We need to be paying attention to the venality of not just publishing something clearly to impress the Mango-Hued Shit-Gibbon but convention delegates, those who would actually make the decision as to who would be the monkey’s vp. All the emphasis on the dog gaslights the deeper evil
I can’t count how many years I’ve been hauling dogs around in the back of a pickup, but recently I was “warned” that is now a ticket able offense: unrestrained dog. Apparently the idea is to keep them from falling out of the truck, without any (apparent) thought given to what happens if you’ve a rope around their neck and they fall out of the truck
I never did have a problem with Romney’s roadtrip. Unless it were really samll and face into the wind dog would probably enjoy it more than the back of a station-wagon
drove from chicago to phoenix in a two door ’53 buick with a great dane, grandmother mom uncle and two kids. gave the dog the window seat.
the reason it is against the law is that people don’t like to see dogs splatted on the street. at least enough people don’t.
i’m funny that way, but i know better than to expect anyone to agree with me.
friend of a friend thought it was fun to let his friend’s four year old ride on the front of his truck. the injuries were not fatal.
As opposed to hanging over the side strangled or neck broken, or dragged down the road by an inattentive driver? I get it, the public don’t want to see it, they just don’t know what they don’t want to see
Ten
thing is, you believe (i suppose) you can avoid that happening (dog thrown from truck) and there is no alternative except dog being hanged by leash when thrown from truck. I am pretty much the same way: supremely confident the kid won’t get killed if i let him ride on the front bumper if i drive very carefully, which i know i do. but then stuff happens. my solution is to let the dog ride on the front seat…without a seat belt. so there is not much difference between us, except for what we imagine can happen. also, I don’t like being told by the cops what i can and cannot do. and i am not going to tell you what you can or cannot do. but personally i err on the side of preventing what i imagine can happen… or at least i try to. it infuriates other drivers when i drive 20 on a residential street posted at 25, which means 35 to them. but how much of your life do you lose by driving 20 mehind some A-hole (me) who worries about kids and dogs appearing suddenly from behind parked cars or out of the glare (my eyes are bad).
i try not to preach.or at least i think i do. but i do like to point out possibilities that don’t seem to occur to other people. it does notmake them like me.
The dog shooting seems to me a story about “if you only have a hammer every problem looks like a nail.” The rootin’ tootin’ shootin’ solution to all of Kristi Noem’s problems is because the only tool she understands is a gun. Is there a second amendment right to be so ignorant, unskilled, and narrow minded?
Sandwich:
Don’t want to deal with it, so this is the way we solve the problem or issues . . . eliminate it. Thanks for stopping by.
sammich
you nailed it with the second sentence. the only tool these people want is a gun. fixes all problems. i don’t like them, but demanding to take their guns away loses elections.
as for the second amendment, back in 1788 guns were a normal part of life in America. In England they couldn’t make up their mind whether they wanted the people to have no weapons, or make it mandtory to own one. different times, different climes. Don’t tell Alito about that mandatory thing. We have a congresswoman who thinks it’s a good idea.
Thanks, coberly
“you nailed it” — pun intended?
always.
“These people”.feels a bit off. The post and several of the comments seem to aggregate to a view that shooting dogs isn’t popular. That works itself around to concern about “these people” and how they can flip elections if not handled right? Feels sort of made up.
Maui Wowie or Alaskan Thunder ? Weed or vape ?
Oofduh!
Do they say that in S Dakota?